Day: February 7, 2014

McGill University will be well represented at the Winter Olympics with an 18-member entourage in Sochi, including six athletes, two coaches and 10 administrators. Three products of the McGill Martlets hockey program – Mélodie Daoust, Charline Labonté and Catherine Ward – are part of Team Canada as it looks to defend the gold medal it won in […]

Do you remember Manon Rhéaume? She’s the goaltender who made history in 1992 when she became the first woman to play in an NHL preseason game with the Tampa Bay Lightning. Her 14-year-old son, Dylan St. Cyr, has turned into a pretty good goalie himself, starring with the Detroit HoneyBaked midget team. Last season, he led the […]

Six members of the Montreal Stars of the Canadian Women’s Hockey League are part of Team Canada for the Sochi Olympics, including Caroline Ouellette, who will captain the team, and Catherine Ward, who is an assistant captain. The other Stars players on Team Canada are Meghan Agosta (photo above), Charline Labonté, Haley Irwin and Lauriane Rougeau. […]

The New York Yankees’ Alex Rodriguez decided to withdraw his lawsuits against Major League Baseball, commissioner Bud Selig and the players’ association on Feb. 7 to overturn his season-long suspension. Rodriguez was originally suspended for 211 games for violating baseball’s drug policy before an arbitrator cut the penalty to 162 games on Jan. 11. After […]

“Over the past months we have observed several gestures of repression toward the LGBT community in Russia. This (flag-raising) gesture is a symbol of fraternity and solidarity toward the LGBT community of Montreal and around the world…Today, we are all Russian for all those people who are suffering right now.” Mayor Denis Coderre, as Rainbow […]

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Zep rules in this town — for certain people, anyway — but there is no doubt in my mind that The Beatles were the greatest band ever. That was reaffirmed for me today as I drove down the Laurentian autoroute with stereo system cranked up high, tuned in to CHOM-FM’s lunchhour program. Tootall had unleashed […]

Check this chart out. It maps the individual contributions per player to their team’s offense and defence and applies to players from five Premier League clubs – Aston Villa, Cardiff City, Manchester United, Southampton and Tottenham Hotspur. Effectively, it asks if every player was on the field for 90 minutes, every match, how many goals […]

You like films about Irish culture right? Of course you do. You like punk music? Again, why do I even need to ask? So it goes without saying that you’ll love an Irish film based on the true story of a guy in Belfast in the late ’70s who created a record label and store […]

What kind of lover are you? This Valentine’s Day, four deluxe hotels in Montreal and beyond are thinking outside the chocolate-covered strawberries and rose petals, offering seductive packages tailored to all different kinds of paramours. Treat yourself and your honey to a staycation in the city, or a weekend get-away. For the Architecture Lover Located […]